WEST LONG BRANCH, NJ – Freshman Ava Angello scored six goals to lead the 23^rd-ranked Johns Hopkins women's lacrosse team to a 20-6 win over host Monmouth Tuesday afternoon. The Blue Jays even their record at 3-3, while the Hawks fall to 5-3.  
 
Seniors Maeve Barker and Madison McPherson scored back-to-back goals just 44 seconds apart to stake Hopkins to an early 2-0 lead. Monmouth answered with a Caroline Brennan goal to cut the lead in half with 10:19 to play in the first. Angello scored the first of her six goals just 21 seconds later to spark a five-goal Blue Jay run that spanned 10 minutes and 29 seconds. She capped the run with a quick-stick shot off an Ashley Mackin feed just 31 seconds into the second and saw Hopkins take a 7-1 lead.  
 
Cassidy Orban and Mya Brock sandwiched a pair of goals around a bouncer from junior Campbell Case and it was 8-3 Blue Jays with 4:33 to play in the second. Angello then completed her hat trick when she curled off a pick and beat Gia Mitchell with a high-to-low shot. Sophomore Ashley Mackin followed with back-to-back goals just 56 seconds apart and Hopkins led 11-3. Monmouth would add one more before the half as the Hawks quickly cleared the ball and Shea Berigan scored with one second left.
 
Hopkins came out firing in the third quarter, getting goals from senior Bailey Cheetham, Angello and Barker to quickly push its lead to 14-4 at the 10:12-mark. Angello ripped one past Mitchell on the run from eight yards out just over three minutes later and the lead was 11. Brennan got one back for the Hawks, but a Georgie Gorelick free position goal with 2:21 left in the period gave Hopkins a 16-5 lead after three.
 
Angello opened the fourth-quarter scoring just 43 seconds in, sneaking a shot between Mitchell and the post from goal-line extended. A failed Monmouth clear led to a fast-break goal from Barker to put Hopkins up 18-5 with 9:59 to play. Danielle McNeeley ended the three-goal Blue Jay spurt with a second-chance opportunity four minutes later. Sophomore Charlotte Smith scored on a left-handed shot to the right post for her first goal of the season at 3:57. Junior Eliza Bowman then closed out the scoring with a transition goal following a Morgan Giardina save with just 37 seconds to play.
 
Angello's six goals are tied for the most by a Hopkins' freshman since the program moved to Division I in 1999. She joins Meghan Burnett (2000) and Jamie Larrimore (1999) as the only Blue Jay freshman with six goals in a game. In all 11 Blue Jays scored and 13 had at least one point.
 
Barker (3g, 3a) added a career-best six points, while Case and Mackin each had two-goal, two-assist performances. Sophomore Annie Marshall controlled a game-high 10 draws, matching her career-high and one shy of the program record. Junior Abbey Hurlbrink added five draws and three caused turnovers. Junior Maggie Tydings and Giardina combined for six saves in the cage.
 
Hopkins returns to action on Saturday, March 11 as the Blue Jays visit eighth-ranked James Madison. Opening draw at Sentara Park is scheduled for 12:00 pm.
 
Notes: The Blue Jays' 20 goals are the most in a game since a 20-13 win at #23 Michigan on April 24, 2021 • JHU won the draw battle, 22-6 • The 22 draws are the second most in program history.